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In case you hadn’t seen…we have several “PUSH GOALS” to meet that would unlock special new things. T-Shirts, Sketchbooks, more cards, and…Nicodemus Plushes!

So, please help us push past our goal so we can all get Nicodemus plushes…okay?

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Also…

This is the last page of the flashback.

With so many questions being asked by you all regarding how the portals work…I’m thinking of adding 2 pages where Alexander actually asks”If they got the portal 2 years ago… why hasn’t there been an attack on Earth already?”

The answer, of course, is that ONE portal doesn’t do anything. You need the Earth one (which Ramses destroyed).

Do you feel the extra two pages are needed? or do you feel it would be redundant?

I agree with you regarding a simple comment being all that’s need to remind some readers of the fact, perhaps as a casual mention by another character to Alex as a curt reminder in itself?

Regarding Staj’s parents, I’d say they’re more than adventurous. Extremely brave verging on foolhardy more like, after all they weren’t able to defend themselves all that well against Nicodemus and a ‘simple’ band of pirates, what makes them think they’ll fare any better in the heart of Abaddon’s domain? Okay, so there’s no chance of them being taken by surprise this time, they do have that advantage, but even so… going it alone like that, just the two of them… O_O

Still, got to hand it to them, one thing you could never accuse them of is cowardice. Talk about taking responsibility no matter the cost! O_O

My only gripe about this page is about Titania’s dress it looks too round when she´s flying like there is a metal ring in it.
I think it should be more open and collapsed hanging a little more loosely maybe a little more u or v shaped rather then O shaped.

Talking about portals – how did those other nightmare things arrive when Dan had the sword. Perhaps there is another portal somewhere on earth. Also very Stargate regarding the portals to other worlds and even then there was more than one portal on earth. The Mayans could have had one in one of their temples…

I’m with LuckyWeasel. The nightmare critters have already been shown as having manifested on Earth. Even if one portal isn’t enough for Lord Abaddon to launch an invasion, some method for getting his forces to Earth clearly exists. (The mer-witch’s pool would work for one and if one, they are bound to be others.)

Someone with more time than I have available right now can check this, but weren’t Dan and Alex aware that the bad guys were spying on them prior to the battle with Nicodemus?

When Alex and Dan was planning the war they were being watched by Wraiths and I believe they don’t need a portal to come to our world. But there was other creatures watching Dan when he said good bye to Nicole after receiving the sword. Now I think they need a portal to get to our world. But I am sure it will be explained at some point…

I think some question by Alexander to bring out the fact they need portals on both sides would be good, just to make it clear – but then you still have to explain why Abaddon wants the one portal so badly.
• Does he want it to make sure that even if another one is built on Earth, he’ll control where they enter Dreamland?
• Could he build another portal in Dreamland and use it to move his armies where he wants to attack by having his wraiths move it to the target area? (Assuming you can use portals to travel across Dreamland?)
• Does he want to study it to figure out how it works, to use the technology behind it for some evil purpose?
• Has he already figured out a way to use it to invade Earth? (Could the Large Hadron Collider at CERN serve as the other end of a portal system when it’s running? 😉 Or some other device/phenomenon?)
• Could he use the one portal as some kind of inter-dimensional ‘radio’ to broadcast nightmares into this world?

Abaddon went to a lot of effort to get the portal. If they can’t make it work to reach Earth without a portal here, there needs to be a plausible reason he went to so much trouble.

Okay I checked back a few days and see you did mention Abaddon needs a working model to build a new one. Wouldn’t hurt to mention it again with the bit about building one on Earth. Which leads to a couple of questions – could Seraphoplis build a replacement for the one that was stolen – and use it to connect to the one Abaddon Is building on Earth? And could Daniel build one if say Alex was able to bring him plans?

I figured they need a portal to PHYSICALLY appear on earth, in the same manner that Alex, Dan, and Nicole are present. So far, unless I misremember, they’ve been apparitions and unable to directly affect the world around them. It’s a great spy technique, but useless for global conquest.
If the first explanation of the portals occurred several books back, I think a comment or couple of pages would be a fine way to remind everyone. If the explanation is within the last couple of chapters, I don’t think it’s necessary depending on how you look at it. We of the web community have to wait a very long time to see a whole book. Once it’s up online and/or printed in someone’s hand, all it takes is 30-45 minutes to read through a chapter. That makes restating a known fact close together a little redundant in my opinion
I love finally knowing what happened to the King and Queen. So excited to see where this is going to go next.

Hard to tell if people reading this much faster than a page a day would have forgotten the obelisk story by this point. That said, Alex asking a (seemingly) dumb question is, well, the very Alex we all know and love. Should be all right, I guess.

The problem I see with your explanation is that it is not consistent with the motivations of the characters. If Ramses destroyed the Earth portal, why dud Abbadon desire the Dreamland portal? Why did Seropholous feel obligated to protect the now useless remaining portal? Why did Nastajia’s parents have to recover or destroy it?

One of the best strips yet man! If only I had thousands of dollars laying around to give you, but I don’t. I might donate $25 toward kickstarter, I just have to find out how, because I my debit card hasn’t been renewed for awhile and I don’t know why. Those bookmarks you were going to offer if you reached $20,000 in funding looked awesome/epic. This comic has been getting better and better both in plot, animation, and well, just plain fun! I hope you’ll keep receiving fitting gifts and ect. for giving the world The Dreamland Chronicles!